Astronomers have spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty, a so‑called Einstein desert where planets are notoriously hard to find.

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The idea of a planet orbiting two suns has long captured both scientific curiosity and public imagination. Popularised by science fiction, such worlds, known as circumbinary planets, do exist, and ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...